Rebirth: The whole family travels through time together: Fubao Koi is busy eating melons

Long Yi sighed softly, his career seemed doomed and there would be no chance of recovery.

Thinking of the situation of his cousin Zhou Xiucai, he felt mixed emotions.

After all, the existence of the Fifth Prince and his cronies was also an important reason why my cousin was reluctant to return home.

Just when everyone thought that the Fifth Prince's ascension to the throne was a foregone conclusion, the dragon robe was ready, the Imperial Observatory had selected an auspicious day, and everything seemed to be waiting for the final ceremony, on the eve of the ascension, shocking news suddenly came from the palace - the Fifth Prince had been assassinated!

The moment Long Yi learned the news, the capital city once again fell into unprecedented chaos.

Many people in the royal family began to make moves, thinking that the interruption of the royal bloodline provided them with the possibility of ascending to the throne. For a time, all kinds of ambitions and conspiracies surged in secret.

He quickly found his cousin Zhou Xiucai, told him the latest developments in the court, and asked him about his plans.

Zhou Xiucai did not respond directly, but unexpectedly asked: "How did Wei Shangbei die?"

Hearing this, Long Yi's heart tightened: "How can you call the Fifth Prince by his name? If this gets out, your life might be in danger."

"What are you afraid of? He's dead. Can he crawl back from hell to settle accounts with me?"

Zhou Xiucai's eyes were full of disdain and provocation.

Long Yi knew his cousin's stubbornness and could only shake his head helplessly: "Forget it, there's no point in telling you this, I can't convince you anyway. Alas, as for the cause of the fifth prince's death, I'm also confused."

It was generally speculated that the remnants of the Prince's party had tried to kill the Fifth Prince, but Long Yi, relying on his few connections in Beijing, found out a truth that was unknown to the public.

It turned out that the fifth prince's death was due to his obsession with beauty. On the eve of his enthronement, he was strangled to death on the dragon bed by a seemingly insignificant little palace maid.

Behind this lies the fifth prince's complex and twisted psychology.

Living under the halo of the crown prince since childhood, coupled with his status as the queen, he always felt inferior and depressed.

As time went by, the Fifth Prince became increasingly extreme under the shadow of the Crown Prince, and even developed a twisted mentality that took pleasure in torturing others.

Many people in the palace had suffered his cruel treatment. The most horrifying thing was that he threw the palace maids into the menagerie and left them to be torn apart by wild beasts.

This matter was revealed by Long Yi out of justice, which completely offended the Fifth Prince. He fell from a promising third place in the imperial examination to an unknown magistrate in Chengguan County.

Deep in the locked palace with high walls, almost no one paid attention to the mysterious death of a palace maid, let alone knew that she had a younger sister. The two sisters depended on each other in the palace and had a deep affection for each other.

After learning the bad news about her elder sister, the younger sister was filled with mixed feelings of grief and anger. As fate would have it, after the fifth prince ascended the throne, she was arranged to serve him.

Under the temptation of power and seeing the throne within reach, the Fifth Prince became more and more arrogant.

He noticed the beauty of the maid and unscrupulously pulled her into the dragon bed, but he didn't know that this action planted the seeds of murder for himself and ultimately led to his tragic end.

When Mr. Zhou heard the reason, he raised his lips in disdain and sneered softly, saying, "It is difficult for such a common man to take on a great responsibility. If the yellow robe is forcibly put on his shoulders, the words 'debauchery' will probably become an indelible mark on him."

Hearing this, Long Yi frowned, his eyes revealed some worry, he sighed, and slowly said: "It is true that the Fifth Prince is not a pillar of state governance, but his alliance with the late Crown Prince has almost cut off the future of all the princes of the previous emperor. Now, there is no healthy prince alive within the palace walls, and in the capital, various forces are constantly fighting for the position of crown prince. I am deeply afraid that the fate of the Great Zhou will fall into a vortex of turmoil because of this."

He turned around, his eyes fell gently on his cousin, and said earnestly: "The royal family may owe you something, but how innocent are the millions of people in the Great Zhou? If you have a good plan in mind, I hope you will be generous in giving me advice. When a country is in chaos, the people who suffer in the end are always those who work hard to the earth."

Long Yi knew his cousin's character very well. Although he looked proud and arrogant on the outside, he was actually soft-hearted at heart. Otherwise, why would he choose to live in seclusion, not caring about worldly affairs, and staying away from the turmoil in the court?

Zhou Xiucai frowned when he heard this. After thinking for a moment, he slowly spoke with a hint of certainty in his voice: "The Great Zhou will not be in chaos. Have you forgotten that the late emperor still has a son who is still alive?"

"Who?"

Long Yi couldn't wait to ask.

Mr. Zhou lowered his voice, as if telling a secret unknown to others: "The Yue Concubine in the deepest part of the cold palace also gave birth to a prince."

Just as he said, in that corner forgotten by the world, there was a strong prince hidden. It was only because his mother, Concubine Yue, accidentally angered the queen and was ostracized that he was almost nowhere to be found in the palace, and thus escaped the calculations of the crown prince and the fifth prince.

Just as the court and the public were arguing over the choice of the new emperor, someone finally remembered the forgotten Sixteenth Prince.

When the chief eunuch led the sixteenth prince into the magnificent court to meet the ministers, everyone witnessed this young but mature prince and unanimously decided to support him to ascend the throne in order to stabilize the world.

Liu Yunxi, as the empress dowager at this time, was filled with unquenchable anger in her heart and almost ordered the punishment of Concubine Yue.

At the critical moment, thanks to her father, the then Shangshu Lord Luo, who stepped in in time to stop it, he dismissed the idlers in the palace and had a private conversation with his daughter, trying to calm the storm.

Liu Yunxi had mixed feelings. She and her son had schemed and schemed until they finally got rid of the former crown prince. The imperial power was about to be within her grasp, but her son died young due to a moment of indulgence, leaving her alone to face this sudden change.

She felt resentful at the thought that the power she had worked so hard to build up over the years might fall into the hands of others.

"Father, you know that man's origin. His mother was just a foot-washing maid of mine back then. How could she be worthy of being the heir of a country? The way I treated them in the past, if they gain power, will our Fang family still have a good ending?"

There was a bone-chilling chill in Liu Yunxi's voice.

Minister Fang sighed softly, his tone full of helplessness: "Now that things have come to this, what can we do? We acted without leaving any room for maneuver, resulting in only sixteen princes left in the palace. If you don't support him as emperor now, how can you, the empress dowager, secure your throne?"

"There are many royal bloodlines. Why can't I choose another young son to raise?"

There was a gleam of unwillingness in Liu Yunxi's eyes.

Minister Fang shook his head and said firmly, "Everyone knows about the Sixteenth Prince. If you don't make him the emperor, it will be hard to convince everyone. Besides, the son of an outsider is not your own after all. He may obey you when he is young, but once he grows up and wants to recognize his ancestors, who can stop him? By then, you will not be able to keep the position of Queen Mother."